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NITED STATES JOHN HANLON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAS APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,361, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed Apri119, 1881. (No model.)

To all, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN HANLON, of the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gas Apparatus, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description, reference being had to the following drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gas apparatus with my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line at w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through 00 m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar section through y 4 Fig. 5 is a rear elevation. Fig. 6 is a cross-section through 1 1 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section through 2 2 of Fig. 2.

My invention has reference to the production of 'carbureted-hydrogen gas for illuminating purposes; and it consists in a combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which 1 have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents masonry, inclosing a bench of retorts,A, and superheating-tubes 6b a a, and provided with an ordinary furnace, B.

In the upper portion of the masonry is the hot-air chamber 0 surrounding the retorts and extending from the front to the rear of the apparatus.

In the middle of the retort A is the superheating-tube a, for the reception of steam, and is connected by the steam-pipe D with a suitable boiler for the generation of steam, which, passing through the pipe D, enters the inner tube, d, of the superheater a, and passes out at its rear end into the outer tube, d, and returns to the front superheated, and, passing through the tubes d enters the inner tube, E, of the superheater a, and there unites with the oil and passes to the rear and out into the outer tube, 0', and back to the front into the chamber F. Y

The oil from a suitable tank passes through the pipes G into the cylinder E, where it mingles with the superheated steam, and,vaporizing, passes through to the rear into the chamher 0, formed by the outer cylinder, e, and for ward again into the chamber F, whence, passing through the outlet H, it enters the upper section of the superheating-chamber I, and then again to the front and down into the lower section of the same, finally reach in g the discharge-pipe J, whence it passes to the condenser and purifier.

At the opening H, through which the gas passes from the chamberF into the superheating and drying chamber I, I construct a seal of lead or fusible alloy, to prevent the possible escape of the gas between the cylinders, and to allow of the expansion and contraction of either without injury to the other. The heat generated in the furnace B passes to the rearward, through the lower chamber,.K, to the flues k k, and thence upward, over and around the hot-air chamber G and the superheating and drying chamber I, again to the forward part of the apparatus, and then through the center opening, L, to the flue Heading to the chimney M.

In the construction of the pipe for the reception of the oil the outer cylinder is provided with a handle, an, adapted to be caught by a hooked rod and drawn out through the rear of the furnace for the purpose from the description that aportion of the heavy constituents of the oil may collect and settle in the chamber 0. These pipes I prefer to make of copper.

To guard against thepossibility of either the discharge-pipes J becoming choked, or the flow of gas being arrested, I connect the two superheating and drying chambers I by the crosspipes N, thus allowing a free communication between the two heating and drying chambers, so that in the event of one becoming stopped the whole product will fiow to and pass from the other.

From the top of the rear elevation of tort passes the pipe I which is suspended the a counter-balance, p. Through the bottom of the cup P also rises the escape-pipe Q, provided on its upper end with a suitable valveseat for the reception of the valve g, which is suspended to the top of the inverted cup 1). The purpose of this mechanism is to guard against any possible damage to the apparatus by too great a pressure of gas in the retorts. Upon any of the passages provided for the gas the reto a sealing-cup, P, in inverted cup 1), having of cleaning, as itis evident becoming stopped, and the flowof gas arrested,

it will escape through the pipe P into the inverted cup 2, when it will raise the cup, and with it the valve g, thus allowing the gas to 5 escape through the pipe Q.

It is evident from the construction of my apparatus that should anf; of the retorts burn out or become damaged from any cause, they may be replaced by others without disturbing the heating and drying chamber; or, if the latter become injured in its sections, these can be replaced without disturbing the retorts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a gas apparatus, thesu perheati n g-tubes d (1, provided with the inlet-pipe D and outlet-pipe d in combination with the superheating-tube E, provided with the inlet-pipes Gr, 20 the chamber F, superheating and dryingchamher I, and outlet-pipes J, all constructed to opcrate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a gas apparatus, the retort E, havin the outer cylinder, 0, provided with the handle m, adapted to be withdrawn from the retort for the purpose of cleansing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In combination with a gas apparatus, a safety-valve composed of the pipe P, cup P and p, and the escape-pipe Q, provided with a valve-seat and suspended Valve q, all constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. The seal-cup H, placed between and in combination with the chamber F and the superheatin g and dryin gchamberI, substantial] y as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN HANLON.

Witnesses R. K. EVANS, JNo. L. OoNDRoN. 

